Mikima, LLC
Experienced LAMP Developer & Server Administrator
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Username: Matt_Wright
Minimum Hourly Rate: $25/hr
Location: United States, Oak Leaf
Summary
Professional IT Consultant with over 15 years of experience working with Linux systems and designing enterprise IT architectures and strategies. I have a proven track record delivering solutions to clients on-time in a Big 4 Enterprise IT consulting environment. My experience includes:
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Server Virtualization with VMWare ESX
- Web Development with PHP and Ruby
- Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX Administration
- High Availability with Linux, GFS, HACMP and Veritas
- SAN storage management
- Project Management
- IT Strategy Development
- IT Infrastructure Strategy
- Data Center Migration Planning
- IT process development (ITIL and TOGAF)
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Server Virtualization with VMWare ESX
- Web Development with PHP and Ruby
- Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX Administration
- High Availability with Linux, GFS, HACMP and Veritas
- SAN storage management
- Project Management
- IT Strategy Development
- IT Infrastructure Strategy
- Data Center Migration Planning
- IT process development (ITIL and TOGAF)
Experience
Employment
BearingPoint Inc
1997-2009 - Technology Architect
A Technical Architect designing detailed technical architectures and leading technical project teams. Some recent project experience includes:
California Water, San Jose, CA (2009)
Performed an IT Infrastructure assessment and delivered a detailed 5 Year IT Infrastructure. Reviewed IT Processes, Data Center, Network, Systems, Storage and Virtual Server environment; provide recommendations to support the application master plan. Built a time line for a phased approach to infrastructure upgrades including budgeting for capital and operational expenses.
ViaSat, Inc, Carlsbad, CA (2008)
Developed a detailed technical design and data center migration strategy to migrate 60 Unix servers from Carlsbad, CA to Atlanta, GA. Managed and supported day-to-day migration activities to help the team meet the aggressive timeline to deliver this critical project. Designed the data center layout, storage configuration, Linux Kickstart planning and VMWare configuration.
United Water, Harrington Park, NJ (2008)
Performed an IT Infrastructure assessment and delivered a detailed 5 Year IT Infrastructure. Reviewed IT Processes, Data Center, Network, Systems and Storage and provide recommendations to support the application master plan. Built a time line for a phased approach to infrastructure upgrades including budgeting for capital and operational expenses.
Honeywell, (2007-2008)
Provided high-level support for datacenter operations for a new regional data center being used for data center consolidation.
-Supported and deployed AIX servers, Windows and Linux servers (Using both IBM Blade servers and VMWare ESX).
-Developed procedures for both operational and deployment tasks. Integrated the new data center into existing configuration management, problem management and incident management procedures.
US Airways, Phoenix, AZ (2007)
Performed an assessment of Midrange servers, VMWare ESX infrastructure and network systems used for the reservations. The assessment identified components of the reservation platform that may be contributing to problems with customer reservations and identified both technical and process improvements. Developed specific recommendations to implement IT Operations Procedures based on the ITIL model.
Florida Power and Light, West Palm Beach, FL, (2006 to 2007)
Served as the lead technical architect designing application architecture and infrastructure standards for the blueprint and deployment of SAP ECC 6.0 with SCM and Vented Asset Suite 6.0 for nuclear asset management.
British Petroleum London, Singapore, Chicago and Houston (2006)
Performed a data center, network, storage, backup and disaster recovery assessment for BP critical data centers. Reviewed 8 data centers in London, Houston, Chicago and Singapore. Provided a detailed set of tactical and strategic recommendations to the client to help guide their future deployments and remediate problems in the existing systems.
Large County Government (2005 to 2006)
Technical team led for team migrating data centers for a large county government. Deployed systems on SUN Solaris 9 and 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 and IBM AIX 5.2. Built environments to support Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 and Linux under VMWare ESX.
Regional Telephone Company (2004 to 2005)
Engineering team lead for A regional telephone company moving, the majority of their applications to an outsourced managed environment with a separate QA and DR site. Over 200 servers were deployed across both sites.
FEMSA, Monterey Mexico (2004)
Designed the data center infrastructure to support the consolidation of all of the Latin American data centers for FEMSA in Mexico.
Previous Client Experience (1997 to 2004)
Bank One, Chicago Stock Exchange, Hilton Hotels, George Washington University, State of Florida, Towers Perrin, State of Texas, Cablevision, KPMG Australia, Optiglobe, KPMG Consulting, Inc, UUNet, KPMG, LLP.
1997-2009 - Technology Architect
A Technical Architect designing detailed technical architectures and leading technical project teams. Some recent project experience includes:
California Water, San Jose, CA (2009)
Performed an IT Infrastructure assessment and delivered a detailed 5 Year IT Infrastructure. Reviewed IT Processes, Data Center, Network, Systems, Storage and Virtual Server environment; provide recommendations to support the application master plan. Built a time line for a phased approach to infrastructure upgrades including budgeting for capital and operational expenses.
ViaSat, Inc, Carlsbad, CA (2008)
Developed a detailed technical design and data center migration strategy to migrate 60 Unix servers from Carlsbad, CA to Atlanta, GA. Managed and supported day-to-day migration activities to help the team meet the aggressive timeline to deliver this critical project. Designed the data center layout, storage configuration, Linux Kickstart planning and VMWare configuration.
United Water, Harrington Park, NJ (2008)
Performed an IT Infrastructure assessment and delivered a detailed 5 Year IT Infrastructure. Reviewed IT Processes, Data Center, Network, Systems and Storage and provide recommendations to support the application master plan. Built a time line for a phased approach to infrastructure upgrades including budgeting for capital and operational expenses.
Honeywell, (2007-2008)
Provided high-level support for datacenter operations for a new regional data center being used for data center consolidation.
-Supported and deployed AIX servers, Windows and Linux servers (Using both IBM Blade servers and VMWare ESX).
-Developed procedures for both operational and deployment tasks. Integrated the new data center into existing configuration management, problem management and incident management procedures.
US Airways, Phoenix, AZ (2007)
Performed an assessment of Midrange servers, VMWare ESX infrastructure and network systems used for the reservations. The assessment identified components of the reservation platform that may be contributing to problems with customer reservations and identified both technical and process improvements. Developed specific recommendations to implement IT Operations Procedures based on the ITIL model.
Florida Power and Light, West Palm Beach, FL, (2006 to 2007)
Served as the lead technical architect designing application architecture and infrastructure standards for the blueprint and deployment of SAP ECC 6.0 with SCM and Vented Asset Suite 6.0 for nuclear asset management.
British Petroleum London, Singapore, Chicago and Houston (2006)
Performed a data center, network, storage, backup and disaster recovery assessment for BP critical data centers. Reviewed 8 data centers in London, Houston, Chicago and Singapore. Provided a detailed set of tactical and strategic recommendations to the client to help guide their future deployments and remediate problems in the existing systems.
Large County Government (2005 to 2006)
Technical team led for team migrating data centers for a large county government. Deployed systems on SUN Solaris 9 and 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 and IBM AIX 5.2. Built environments to support Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 and Linux under VMWare ESX.
Regional Telephone Company (2004 to 2005)
Engineering team lead for A regional telephone company moving, the majority of their applications to an outsourced managed environment with a separate QA and DR site. Over 200 servers were deployed across both sites.
FEMSA, Monterey Mexico (2004)
Designed the data center infrastructure to support the consolidation of all of the Latin American data centers for FEMSA in Mexico.
Previous Client Experience (1997 to 2004)
Bank One, Chicago Stock Exchange, Hilton Hotels, George Washington University, State of Florida, Towers Perrin, State of Texas, Cablevision, KPMG Australia, Optiglobe, KPMG Consulting, Inc, UUNet, KPMG, LLP.
About Me
Profile Type: Individual
Year Founded: 1971
Number of Employees: 1
I am available to work on IT Infrastructure projects globally either locally or remotely.
